Temporary exhibitions
2007
The typological evolution of the garden in the ancient world: from place of otium and leisure to place devoted to meditation, study and experimentation in the naturalist and technical spheres.
2007
An ideal itinerary through the city of Florence to visit its monumental gnomons. The census of Florentine sundials is available online.
2006
Thanks to artworks, reconstructions and films, the exhibition explores the very mode of thinking of the "universal genius" and his unitary conception of knowledge as the effort to assimilate the laws governing the operations of man and nature.
2005
An interactive exhibition running through the steps which led to the birth of contemporary physics.
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2005
A striking journey through the shapes of numbers covering the period from Euclid’s codification (3rd century BC) to the threshold of non-Euclidean geometry (19th century).
2004
The centennial exhibition of the Nobel Prize (in Italian only).
2004
A journey through the universe illustrating the various representations elaborated by astronomers and scientists between the 16th and 18th centuries.
2004
Digital reconstructions and working models of Leonardo da Vinci's self-propelled cart (in Italian only).
2004
The making of glass objects and devices as a contribution to increasing the scientific and technological knowledge of antiquity and a basis for the “scientific” rediscovery of this material in the Renaissance.